Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19288, James Dyar, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Dyar, James
S. 19288
CONTENTS
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Maine 31,639
James Dyer,
of Franklin in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Higgins of the Reg't commanded by [blank] in the Massachusetts line for 6 months,
Inserted in the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars & Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of July 39, as sent to J. G. Rich, Plymouth, Mass.
Arrears to the 14th of March $160.00 Pension allowance ending 10.00 $170.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. Burrows Clerk Book 8 - Vol. 1 - Page 121
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34,795 James Dyar Maine
Oct 7. June '32.
adm d lenopri 20 $
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J. H. Hickson Plymouth Mass.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 3rd of June 1832 entitled "An Act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the revolution."
State of Maine } ss. County of Franklin }
On this fourteenth day of March A.D. eight hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared John Barker Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Franklin James Dyer of Saco Maine in said County, formerly a resident of Saco in the County of Barnstable Commonwealth of Massachusetts, eighty seven who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed the seventh day of June 1832 entitled "An Act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and soldiers of the revolution."
That in the first part of the revolution war, about 1778 he was drafted into a Company of Militia in the town of Saco on Cape Cod State of Massachusetts where he then lived and was embodied into a Company under the command of Capt. Dyer. That he was then a Lieutenant in said Company. That from age & long lapse of time he cannot distinctly recollect the names of the officers except only the name of Isaac Small who shortly stood on watch with him. That said Company consisted of about 28 or 30 was embodied and called to actual service about the 1st of March that he remained in actual service in said Company about six months, after which time he was held as a member of the same Company about six months longer as a minute man light infantry and in readiness to march at a moments warning. said Company was furnished with small arms and equipped here by government. Second Boston, and had two old field pieces.

That they were stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that their most exercise was in mustering their lines and marching in any direction necessary to defend the sea shore from British cruisers which were then commencing to stop all American vessels on the coast, the main part being in San Juan, Boston, and a few in other ports. That some of the engagements in particular in the course of a week which he thinks was commanded by one Capt. [?], that the last six months of the war, that the war was not safe and convenient for American vessels to go to sea, to go to sea, which rendered it impossible to be constantly employed.
James Dyer
I am to and subscribe as the same and your above written in [?]
Thomas Parker Judge of the Court of Probate Franklin County
State of [?]
The foregoing declaration was taken and of [?] • [?] from age and information not being [?] [?] is also [?]. I further testify that Mr. Dyer who made the foregoing declaration is a man of good moral character and that I firmly believe the same to be true to the best of his knowledge and recollection.
Thomas Parker Judge
State of [?] County of [?]
I William Dickey do hereby certify that [?] Thomas Parker is Judge of Probate for said County of Franklin and that the above is his genuine signature.
William Dickey
Given under my hand and Seal of said Court of Probate this 14th day of March A.D. 1839
William Dickey
Register of the Court of Probate Franklin County

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of James Dwyer a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 17,200.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     March 1788 1 yr 1st Lieut Benjamin Biggins / Maine   1st Lieut        
Battles engaged in, none or skirmishes
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Waltham Mass (Barnstable Co.)
Date of application for pension, July 14, 1839. This claim was rejected.
Residence at date of application, New Shoburn, Penobscot Co. Maine
Age at date of application, 81 years place of birth not stated.
Remarks: _____
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

19288 INVALID.
File No. _____
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Act: _____
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aug. 27 1904. Hist. to Thos. F. Dyer, Foxcroft, Me. F.W.
1914 Feb 4. Hist to Mr. Frank D Chester
1914 Apr. 4. Hist to Mrs L.A. Underhill, M.B.H.

State of Massachusetts.
Wormsloe County D. Town of Sturtevant.
March 20th 1861, I do hereby certify that Joseph Dill of the town of Sturtevant and Town of Wormsloe upon oath, being sworn, knows that Joseph Dill is one of the members of the Sturtevant Militia and for a long time past, has been a member thereof. That in the year 1878, being then a little under twenty years of age, did enlist and serve as a private in the company of Militia under the command of Capt. Stephen Higgins, and was on duty daily in said company, from about the first day of May to the last day of November in said year, and was then entitled to a pension of twenty dollars per year, on account of wounds received in said company; and further saith that Joseph Dill is not a citizen of the aforesaid State, County and Town, but believes he now resides and has for years past resided in the State of Maine, County of Penobscot, and served in said company, and was on duty the same time.
The said company was embodied and encamped on the sea coast in said Town, at a place known by the name of Pease Hollow, where a small village was and still is located, entirely exposed to the fire of the enemy.
Daily duty of said company was common exercise with muskets. Two brave killed pieces together with two artillery soon six pounders; had two battles, but one small skirmish in running (with the two brass pieces) an American brig from

being boarded by the enemy.
I think the company consisted of about sixty privates, and pay about forty shillings per month.
I now of no connection with any other company believe there was a company, Volunteered and inbarked at the same place six months in a year during the war.
Will remember the names of twenty or more of said company, know of but one living now beside myself: and that is the ex. said James Hayer of the State of Maine.
Ebenezer Wiley of Wilton in the county of State of Maine, was in said company at the same time, and received his yearly pension, did last January.
Joseph Nich
Subscribed and sworn to this day and year above named before me.
Solomon Davis Justice of the Peace
State of Massachusetts,
Barnstable ss 27 March 1839 - Then personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Barnstable, the above named Joseph Nich, and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true - and I further certify that the said Deponent is well known to me, and that he is a credible witness.
Solomon Davis Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin County ss
I Dorothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County hereby certify that Solomon David Esquire is a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified and was so on the 27 th day of March last 1839, and that I believe that the signature on the next preceding page of this sheet purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this first day of April
A.D. 1839
Dorothy Reed Clerk

On
July 23.
J. C. Crump
Hon. J. P. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Philaonth July 17. 1834.
I have (very) impatiently awaited some word from the case of James Dyer & his papers I sent in. Apr. 3 rd inst. I received a word from your office 21 st May saying it would be seen to in turn, if this the case I will patiently wait - but I have feared it might have been delayed from some other cause - You would greatly oblige me by dropping a line on rest
With due respect
Yours &c
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Joshua S. Rich J. P.

Chap. Ake 8. James Bryan Oct 1832
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comissioner of Pensions Washington - D. C.

Waverly - L. Edwards (signature of L. Edwards)
Mr. President,
It is a distinction in some Dyer - also a distinction in some Dyer - 16. It is a distinction in some Dyer - also a distinction in some Dyer - 17. It is a distinction in some Dyer - also a distinction in some Dyer -
Who will be the next President of the United States? The question is on every body's lips. The answer is in the hands of the people. I believe that the next President will be a man who will restore the peace and prosperity of the country.
Consequently, a similar lack of a part of the volume was cut off - most years' volume in the Library - especially in the last years. The volume is now a complete set of volumes - and you can see it is now
1861-1865, of which the first volume is in some sense a sequel to the second. In what is some small part of the second volume, the exact, or rather the precise, amount of the
which may be applied to all men, — I have often heard the French say that all men are served by truth.
be seen - - - - - me in this place - also watching over the children - - - - - their children - - - - - him  them - - - - - the money in the - - - - - the
your love - I feel assured that you will take - his in the morning and I am not sure if I can
Yours sincerely, Yours Affly Servt
Gwynedd, Mass. April 30. 1834. — Joshua S. Root,

Foxcroft, Maine Aug. 22. 1904
AUG 25 1904
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you give me the war record of James Dyer of Me., a soldier of the Revolution, and a pensioner, who died at New Sharon Maine October 1- 1843. I wish to ascertain his Regiment and Company, and date of enlistment and discharge. Also the same record of Ebenezer French of New Hampshire who died at New Sharon, Maine, November 22 1839. These men were my grandfathers and I remem- -ber that they were both pensioners and there must be a record of that fact in the archives at Washington.
Very truly
Yours as F. Dyer

Department of the Interior - Revolutionary War Section - Messrs.
I am writing for a copy of the pension papers of James Dyer for use in joining the Daughters of the American Revolution - since it is the only record of his service which I have found.
James Dyer was born Jan. 13, 1752, in Truro, Massachusetts. He moved to New Sharon, Maine, in 1799, where he applied for a pension March 14, 1839. His claim was allowed.

He served one year, from March, 1778, as private and minuteman under Captain Reuben Higgins.
I would thank you for an early reply.
Yours truly
L. A. Underhill
16 Beals Street
Brookline, Mass.
March twenty-fifth, 1914

Frank Dyer Chester, Ph.D.,
The Bristol, Boston.
January 26, 1914.
H. S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Sir:
I beg to request the record of the pensioner  James Dyer whose residence in 1840 was near Sharon, Franklin County, Maine, age 80, living with Henry Dyer. Was he born in Truro or Hinton, as claimed?
This is a matter of great importance.
Thanking you for the many favors in times past, I remain
yours very respectfully,
F. D. Chester